Matrix dimensions bias demographic inferences: Implications for comparative plant demography

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 710-722

  Salguero Gómez, Roberto ^a   Plotkin, Joshua B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collapsing; Comparative plant demography; Elasticity; Matrix dimension; Population growth rate (l); Projection matrix models

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; GROWTH RATE; HERB; LIFE TABLE; MATRIX;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT;

ALGORITHMS; FERTILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS;

EID: 78649707145     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657044     Document Type: Article

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